The new law enforcement and oversight agency would monitor those in
state or private care who have developmental disabilities like autism or
cerebral palsy, mental illnesses including schizophrenia, and other
conditions, among them traumatic brain injuries, that put them at risk.
The agency would employ a special prosecutor and would be granted
subpoena power and the authority to convene grand juries, according to a
draft plan obtained by The New York Times.
Monday, May 7, 2012
Cuomo Proposes New Agency to Protect Disabled
ALBANY — Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo,
seeking to strengthen the state’s chronically weak response to abuse of
disabled people who live in publicly financed homes, plans this week to propose creating an agency dedicated to investigating problems with the care of nearly one million vulnerable New Yorkers.
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